Archive for August 13, 2013

How sweet the morning air is!See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo.How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in thepresence of the great elemental forces of nature.- Arthur Conan Doyle

Agra, India

I’ll tell you how the sun rose,
A ribbon at a time.The steeples swam in amethyst,The news like squirrels ran. The hills untied their bonnets,The bobolinks begun.Then I said softly to myself,That must have been the sun …- Emily Dickinson

A flower vendor paddles through Dal Lake, Kashmir

Breakfast tea being passed between cars on the railway in Pakistan

We can only appreciate the miracle of a sunrise if we have waited in the darkness.

Early morning at the Old Delhi Train Station, India

There’s a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they’re absolutely free.
Don’t miss so many of them. - Jo Walton

Afghan man makes his early morning rounds

Bamiyan Province, Afghanistan

Girl cooking morning meal, Uttarakhand, India

Morning coffee in Tanzania

Varanasi, India

It’s early morning and the men know that it is vital to jostle for the
best spot from which to sell their wares on Dal Lake, Kashmir

Procession of monks walk for their morning alms in Rangoon, Burma

Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.- Leonora Carrington

Italy

Dawn – the marginal minute of the dark when the grove is still mute, save for one prophetic bird
who sings with a clear-voiced conviction that he at least knows the correct time of day,
the rest preserving silence as if equally convinced that he is mistaken.- Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles

Groundskeepers in Chiang-Mai, Thailand

Man peers into the early morning light in Morocco

Sanaa, Yemen

Dawn was breaking over the horizon, shell pink and faintly gold…- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

A cat basks in the warmth of the morning sun, Burma

Turkey

Jodhpur, India

Honduras

Honduras

Untold: The Stories Behind the Photographs published by Phaidon Press, will be available in September, 2013It will include many items of ephemera never seen or published.